I’m through to Wednesday! This week at school has been
fantastic. Over 30 students have forgotten their homework for over 30 different
reasons. One kid got a detention for closing a door to hard next to me. 5 kids
got detentions for turning up late to my class. 10 of my form class turned up
20 minutes late to school.
At the same time, I’ve taught some great lessons. I’ve
witnessed a class of A Level students calculate solubility product correctly
(crazy). I’ve taught a class sat lazy boy chairs in 16oC air
conditioning. I’ve been asked on a school trip to the space centre in French
Guiana. It’s been so “cold” in Georgetown that the kids have worn jumpers in
school.
Going back to the lateness in the mornings... Most students
have excuses of transport issues. I can’t decide if this is a reasonable
excuse. Some of them have this issue every morning. It is true; to get into
Georgetown, you have to deal with one road that gets incredibly busy once 7am
hits. But surely congestion in London was worse and they managed to turn up on
time.
5S are a class full of heroes. I had geography and chemistry
with them today and I enjoyed them both. In geography, I set them off on a
research task and was stood there starring out of the window over the coastline
of Georgetown almost crying with how content I was. In chemistry they figured
out how to separate 5 different gases from air all by themselves. They should
get medals but instead I gave 200 (mystery) points to the winning team.
My other classes are probably as good but I spend 7 hours a
week with 5S so lessons go so smoothly. Well, all except first thing this
morning. I found out why the students have to make sure they close their
classes’ windows before they leave school each afternoon. 5S was flooded. Half
of the desks and chairs were soaking and there was a big puddle down one side
of the room after the storm last night. The past two days have been relentless
in terms of rain. Torrential tropical downpours are interspersed with a few
minutes of Sun but mainly hours of drizzly English rain. The benefits of this
are many. I have forgotten about sweating, my finger-tips actually get cold and
the students are so much less lethargic.
Last night I won at all-you-can-eat Brazilian. I strolled
out without stomach cramps. A life goal has been accomplished.
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